I’ve now been experiencing ocd symptoms for 3 months and they have slowly gotten less grip on my life. Is it bad for my ocd if I smoke weed, I’ve noticed it almost gets rid of my symptoms after I smoke it. I only smoke it on the weekends to wind down after a stressful week and to give me a break from the ocd stress. But was just wondering if this will effect my recovery?
Hi this is my own personal experience but weed can be a lifesaver and also really harmful. I smoked weed recreationally and found that it really helped, I could eat, sleep, relax. Especially before bed when I found my brain extra sensitive. However later it triggered anxiety and I started getting really anxious and having intrusive thoughts specifically in relation to smoking. Then in fear of having certain thoughts sober I would smoke so I would be high and I guess I considered that to cancel it out. I think that people will try to unnecessarily scare people with weed. I genuinely believe that in many ways it can be used as a medicine, and it seems that you are using it in a healthy way. Just remember to consider how you it makes you feel and check in with yourself. Light up and have fun!
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@Anonymous Thanks bro much appreciated
I think everyone is different regarding cannabis. People have strong views on both sides of the argument around using cannabis for mental health, I think you gotta just be honest with yourself if it’s helpful or not. I myself use cannabis everyday (very high-low thc) it really helps me. I’ve a friend with mental health problems uses high thc everyday and he loves it, seems to work for him, his stuff would give me a complete breakdown, and I have another friend who can’t touch it at all, even my high cbd strains, it doesn’t help his mental health stuff at all. I would go as far to say that for me cannabis has and is the best medication I’ve found that helps my ocd
@Mowgli Yeah thanks for this comment, really puts me at ease with it all as it’s something I enjoyed to do before my ocd came into place. Before this comment I’d always feel guilt after my high went because I have seen all these people saying it will make my anxiety and ocd worse, even though it completely relaxes me. Was just worrying and felt guilt that in the long run it may effect me but I guess not.
@lukefoy10 It might change in the long run, I used to like high thc cannabis, as I’ve got older I couldn’t vape the stuff I used to
@Mowgli Is it safe to carry on smoking though? It really helps as i can also hang with friends without having these thoughts in my head all the time, so would be a miracle if I’m okay to
@lukefoy10 I think only you can answer that man, I only know if I can
@Mowgli I mean it’s been very good for me during these times, but I don’t know if that’s a good thing because that means I may depend on it.
@lukefoy10 For me, I view cannabis like meds, if I wasn’t using cannabis and was taking meds in the day, I’d have to take them everyday, so I’d be dependant upon them. I’d prefer to be dependent on cannabis
@Mowgli Good way to put it my man, would you recommend using any cbd or has that not been effective for you?
@lukefoy10 I use cannabis bud that’s high in cbd and very low in thc, I mainly vape that. When I do yoga, go for a walk in woods, play guitar or do artwork, I’ll add a very small amount of regular thc weed to the mix.
Wondering if any of you have tried cannabis for your ocd and if it helped or made it worse.
This is kind of a weird question, but I recently increased my SSRI dosage and have experienced tremendous relief. It has quieted my intrusive thoughts so much and my compulsions are no longer as all-consuming. However, I don’t want to be on this high of a dosage forever and know that medication alone shouldn’t be my only fix. I’m seeing a new psychiatrist on Wednesday and am wondering if the recent decrease in frequency of my symptoms will be a bar to my getting ocd treatment? In other words, if in this present moment I’m doing better, but up until a few days ago my compulsions were taking up pretty much every moment of my waking day, will I still be classified as having ocd? I start getting worried when I feel better that I don’t actually have ocd and just use it as a defense mechanism to avoid consequences of my actions/I’m secretly a terrible person
When I smoke weed when I think of non ocd things or themes, my head starts to make sense of things I feel more open and I think clearer. So that’s where my big concern is!!! Because when I’m high and think of ocd things like being a killer, or someone who’s a sociopath or someone that can be a pedo it feels real like my mind is clearer that I am these things Any one who has experienced weed with ocd help me I need insight on this im very confused and it’s causing me to ruminate all day
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